Prest-O Change-O as Lockheed Martin’s Small Smart Satellites can Change Missions in Orbit
with new architecture that will let users add capability and assign new missions with a software push, just like adding an app on a smartphone.
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AI to Improve the Management of Constellations Through 2Operate and GomSpace Technology Collaboration
The use of 2Solve and AI for satellite constellation management help reduce the amount of operator hours required to manage satellite constellations by...
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U.S.A.F. Academy Cadets’ FalconSAT-6 Smallsat Leverages Zero-G’s Weightless Lab for Testing
ZERO-G Weightless Lab provides a unique opportunity allowing researchers to conduct hands-on testing at a level matching NASA’s...
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Control of the Metop-C Satellite Handed Over to EUMETSAT… Three Metop Constellation Flight Operations Initiated
Studies show that this impact has socio-economic benefits of 5 billion euros per year to Europe, and this will certainly increase with a third satellite.
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NASA’s Chandra Spacecraft Returns to Normal Pointing Mode
The safe mode was caused by a glitch in one of Chandra's gyroscopes resulting in a 3-second period of bad data that, in turn, led the on-board...
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Advanced Spacecraft Navigation Techniques to be Studied by Astrobotic for NASA JPL
Though the software will be designed to be applicable to a range of missions, spacecraft, and sensors, the team is working toward a landed...
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Hubble “We Have a Problem” … Now in Safe Mode as Gyro Issues are Diagnosed
Redundancy is NASA's best friend, and so it is with the Hubble Space Telescope as NASA stands ready for failures with backups, and even ...
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Bright Ascension Develops Software in Support of VORAGO’s RH-OBC-1 Plug-and-Play Components for Smallsats
The Onboard Computer (OBC) has been designed as a plug-and-play component for cubesats orbiting in high radiation environments. Radiation...
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Transponder Tumult for APSTAR-6
A power loss is the root cause of the transponder troubles, which required customer traffic reliant upon those transponders to be suspended. The company moved...
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Precise, Autonomous SmallSat Formation Flight from Space Flight Laboratory Scores the Canadian Alouette Award
Established in 1998 at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS), Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) was the developer of the...
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